The Other Songs and The BRIT School Raise £400K for Music Education

Global music and entertainment company The Other Songs has announced that its collaboration with The BRIT School, ‘The Other Songs Live’, has raised £400,000 to support the work of the school.

The event:

• The Other Songs Live took place at The London Palladium on May 19.

• Songwriters and musicians including Nile Rodgers, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cathy Dennis, Justin Tranter, Zach Nahome and BRIT alumni Selorm Adonu and Cush Jumbo OBE took to the stage alongside current BRIT School students.

• It also featured surprise performances from fellow alumnus Rex Orange County and Sam Ryder.

The proceeds:

• The BRIT School is the UK’s leading free performing and creative arts school.

• It trains 1,400 young artists annually, and needs to raise £2,300 per student each year (£3.4m in total).

• The £400,000 raised will help ensure that the creative education provided at BRIT remains free.

What they said:

• Alastair Webber, CEO of The Other Songs: “I am so proud of what we achieved on this special night with The BRIT School. The positive impact will be felt for years but was never just about one night at The London Palladium, it was about kick-starting a national movement around free access to arts education. Every child in this country deserves the chance to discover their creative voice, regardless of their background. The Other Songs won’t stop until that is fact.”